``An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable.`` -- Booklist , starred review The star of her school\'s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic...until the dizzy spells start. `` The] story speaks directly to young readers of the tragedy of Sadako\'s death and, in its simplicity, makes a universal statement for \'peace in the world.`` -- The Horn Book ``The story is told tenderly but with neither a morbid nor a sentimental tone: it is direct and touching.`` -- BCCB.
Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan.
Then she must face the hardest race of her life--the race against time. ``An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable.`` -- Booklist , starred review The star of her school\'s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic...until the dizzy spells start
